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Ron Howard’s new film on famed photographer Richard Avedon, explained in four remarkable shots

Like many of us, director Ron Howard had come across Richard Avedon’s photos all his life, without realizing it. There’s the iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe looking off-camera, deflated. Charlie Chaplin mimicking devil horns. Brooke Shields in a provocative Calvin Klein ad. As Howard dug through the archives and interviewed subjects for his new documentary on the renowned American photographer, the bolt of recognition hit him more than once.

“It was stunning,” Howard said of going into the vault and seeing the range of subjects who had sat for him. Speaking via video call, trademark cap on, warm wood paneling all around, the actor and director of the Oscar-winning film, “A Beautiful Mind,” took inspiration from Avedon: “He’s braver,” he said, comparing himself. “He took more leaps, took more risks.”

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Ron Howard has directed more than two dozen movies over his career, but he admits he still gets nervous every time he’s about to show it to the world for the first time. But with his latest work, a documentary about the iconic photographer Richard Avedon, he felt a tad more confident that the crowd at the Cannes Film Festival would appreciate his portrait of a groundbreaking artist. “I just had a good feeling about the way this audience would embrace the spirit of his creativity and his commitment to blending the commercial work with the more serious subjects, but with the same artistic zeal,” he told Vanity Fair at the after-party.

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If you’re unfamiliar with the work of Richard Avedon, it can be difficult to grasp how groundbreaking he was after growing up surrounded by images that bear his influence. The legendary photographer, who shot everything from decades’ worth of Vogue covers to portraits of royalty and photojournalism about the Vietnam War, almost singlehandedly redefined our idea of what a stationary image could convey. By inviting models, dancers, and movie stars to dance, jump, and play around his studio while he took pictures, he developed a distinct knack for capturing motion in still shots that immortalize a gleeful millisecond. Even if that sounds like standard procedure for today’s magazine covers, Avedon is as responsible as anyone for turning the once-frigid mediums of portrait and fashion photography into something as vibrant and alive as the American century that he documented.

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